Exposure to a class of synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-often called "forever ...

Patients prescribed drugs to help them lose weight may experience a rebound in weight gain after halting their prescription, ...

A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health identified that uranium's isotopic composition can be used as a biomarker to noninvasively measure accumulation of ...

A new review in Frontiers in Nutrition synthesizes recent evidence on how probiotic supplementation may impact gut health, ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anaesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed ...

Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening virus HTLV-1. Yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently has no preventative treatments and no cure.

A University of Oklahoma researcher is the first to discover that the sequence of the genetic defect in the neuromuscular ...

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis.

All probiotics are not created equal, according to new research from North Carolina State University. In a mouse model, ...

Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, which further weakens the body.